Elon Musk Joins Twitter Board

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Twitter has announced the appointment of Tesla’s chief executive, Elon Musk, to its board of directors.

The announcement, which was made by Twitter’s chief executive, Parag Agrawal, came a day after a filing revealed he had bought a passive 9.2 percent stake in the microblogging platform.

Agrawal tweeted, “Through conversations with Elon in recent weeks, it became clear to us that he would bring great value to our Board. He’s both a passionate believer and intense critic of the service which is exactly what we need on Twitter, and in the boardroom, to make us stronger in the long term. Welcome Elon!”

Musk, who has more than 80 million followers on Twitter, has in recent weeks canvassed opinion through polls on the platform about what the design of Twitter should look like.

After the news broke that he had become one of Twitter’s biggest shareholders, Musk wrote on the platform “Oh hi lol” and later posted a poll asking if users wanted an edit button.